Shai Heredia Archives — ARKIPEL https://arkipel.org/tag/shai-heredia/ Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:15:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 51814669 Politics of Form: Understanding Cinema, Digesting Reality https://arkipel.org/politics-form-understanding-cinema-digesting-reality/ https://arkipel.org/politics-form-understanding-cinema-digesting-reality/#respond Sun, 21 Aug 2016 08:52:16 +0000 http://arkipel.org/?p=5837 Propaganda films will be successful if it can fulfill the aesthetic conditions of good films. Propaganda films often display a black and white truth. That kind of imagination must be showed to convince the viewers. Just like in The New Wave and Prisoners of Conscience films that gave the whole picture of the propaganda. The first film legitimates a certain institution while the second one heavily criticizes it. They are contradictive but speak in the same good visual language. Thus, both of them are also fine and effective propaganda films.

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